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CWC was earlier scheduled on answers from the Prime Addressing a hurriedly nition, were recovered from the February 27 which was called Minister on status of the called Press conference in encounter site, on Monday off amid the Indo-Pak escala- promises made by him five Srinagar, GoC 15 Chinar Corps morning. tion. years ago and on his Lt Gen KJS Dhillon, accompa- The identity of the slain   ,- Sources said the Congress Governance track record. After nied by IG Kashmir SP Pani terrorist was established with is seeking to give a strong polit- the CWC meeting, senior and IG CRPF Zulfiqar Hussain the help of his family members.     1,2/ ical message to the entire Congress leaders, including said Mudasir Khan has been Official sources claimed nation from the land of Rahul, UPA chairperson Sonia eliminated in the encounter. that 23-year-old Mudasir, an enior Madhya Pradesh Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Gandhi and former Prime He said Mudasir was the electrician with a graduate SCongress leader and former Patel, with the party leadership Minister Manmohan Singh, “main conspirator” of the attack degree and a resident of Lok Sabha MP Sunderlal scheduled to hold a prayer as well as current and former on the CRPF convoy in Pulwama, reportedly arranged                        Tiwari on Monday died of car- meeting at Sabarmati Gandhi party Chief Ministers will Pulwama. His elimination has the vehicle and explosives used         !   diac arrest. He was 65 and is Ashram in Ahmedabad, fol- attend the ‘Jan Sankalp’ rally’, caused a major dent to the Jaish in the terror strike”. survived by his wife, son and lowed by the CWC meet at state party unit chief Amit leadership in the Valley. A resident of Mir Mohalla active since then. Zulfiqar Hussain, IG CRPF, were wanted for their com- daughter. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Chavda said. Claiming that the security of Tral, Mudasir joined the JeM Suicide attacker Adil said the Tral encounter could plicity in terror crimes. A former Lok Sabha MP national memorial there. The party has been alleg- forces are pulling out all stops in 2017 as an overground Ahmed Dar, who rammed his not be called an “avenge” of the A police spokesman said, from Rewa and ex-MLA from The CWC meeting is ing that Modi has “fooled” the to prevent Pulwama repeat, Lt worker and was later drawn explosive-laden vehicle into a Pulwama terror attack as the “Both terrorists were involved Gurh, Tiwari is the son of for- being held in Gujarat after a people with his “false propa- Gen Dhillon said, “We have into the terror outfit by Noor bus in the CRPF convoy on CRPF had lost several men. He in planning and executing sev- mer Madhya Pradesh gap of 58 years. It was last held ganda” and “boastful claims” really gone behind JeM across Mohammed Tantrey, alias February 14, had been in con- said, “Our job is still not done. eral terror attacks. Mudasir Assembly Speaker Sriniwas in the State at Bhavnagar in and has not delivered on his Kashmi.” In the last three ‘Noor Trali’, who is believed to stant contact with Mudasir, All those people who had sup- was involved in attack on a Tiwari. "Sunderlal ji suffered a 1961. The party will also hold promises. It has also alleged weeks, “We have eliminated 18 have helped the terror group’s officials said. plied explosives, provided CRPF camp in Lethpora last heart attack this morning and a public meeting in Adalaj in that the Modi Government has terrorists, out of which 14 were revival in Kashmir. IG Kashmir SP Pani said logistics and radicalised youth year.” he died en route to hospital. He Gandhinagar district of inflicted pain and misery on JeM cadre, including 6 top After Tantray was killed in one of the terrorists killed has would be dealt with.” The National Investigation had undergone angioplasty Gujarat with the slogan of “Jai the poor, the unemployed and commanders,” he added. December 2017, Mudasir dis- been identified as “Code According to the police Agency, which is probing the earlier," Rewa's Sanjay Gandhi Jawan, Jai Kisan”. Congress the farmers during its five “Operations against for- appeared from his home on Khalid”, believed to be a records, both the slain terror- Pulwama attack, had raided Hospital superintendent Dr general secretary Priyanka years of power. eign mercenaries and JeM ter- January 14, 2018, and has been Pakistani. ists were affiliated with JeM and Mudasir’s residence. APS Gagarwar said. #$%&'          

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  ' adjacent room were burgled. investigation. Meanwhile, information the place was raid- police station area on Sunday. Police said Sabha election 2019 can be held in  %   A complaint was lodged Teelajamalpura police arrested ed where 12 persons were that a man was injured after his bike was 132 0-A a peaceful, credible and transparent with the Govindpura police 12 persons on the charge of found gambling and around Rs hit head-on by a mini truck and when the manner. In a meeting with the polit- and in her complaint she stat- gambling and recovered Rs 20000 cash was recovered from injured was rushed to a nearby he was 2- 220 ical parties, Kantha Rao said that cles, sites, loudspeakers etc. in the ed that she was with her chil- 20000 cash, playing cards from their possession. declared dead. 01 /*/ elections will be held in the state in election campaign can be made to The deceased was identified as Rahul last four phases. the concerned officers. Pal alias Ravi of Arjun Ward Gandhi Nagar. /D**4/1/&B-/A* Rao said that this time it will be Action under Defacement of The mini truck driver escaped the spot mandatory for the voters to have an Property Act is in progress in all the %
0// leaving the vehicle which was later seized 0&*4/D**4/1/& alternative identity card along with districts of the state. Government by the police. Bike was hit when deceased the voter slip for voting in Lok Sabha vehicles cannot be used in political was on his way back to home after drop- 2-* /-2/4*/ elections. All political parties have campaign. Religious sites will not be // / ping her mother at sisters’ house in Raisen. 2 0&/3 been urged to use eco-friendly pro- used for political propaganda. Chief After the preliminary investigation the motional material in the election Electoral Officer Kantha Rao said body was sent for the post mortem and a campaign. Complaints can be lodged that with the implementation of case under section 304 A of the IPC and mation a police team reached the spot and during the election campaign on C- Model Code of Conduct soon after '<= 7 started further investigation. Search for the started investigation. Vigil app and 1950 toll free number. the announcement of election, all the accused has been started. The body was sent for the post mortem The Commission has told the district officials have been instruct- Meanwhile, a 30-year-old man com- after the preliminary investigation. The political parties not to use the pho- ed to produce the list of construction Bhopal: A medical college in and medical experts. mitted suicide by consuming poisonous police have registered a case under section tographs of employees and officers works going on in the districts Bhopal allegedly admitted fake The Central Government substance at Nazeerabad village under 174 of the CrPC and have started further of the security forces and of any pro- within 72 hours. Additional Chief and ghost patients to comply and Medical Council of India Nazeerabad police station area on Sunday. investigation. The reason of the death gramme of the Army in election Electoral Officer Sandeep Yadav with minimum requirements of had highlighted before the Police said that the deceased Dhaan remains unknown. It was a suicide or he campaigning and advertisements. and Arun Kumar Tomar, Joint Chief Medical Council of India. Supreme Court gross mal- Singh was found in an unconscious state was poisoned would be investigated. The GPS will be installed in the vehicles Electoral Officer Rajesh Kaul and A CBI inquiry was con- practices in the college and and was rushed to a nearby hospital family members are yet to record their to be used for transport of VV PAT Abhijeet Agrawal and representatives ducted in this regard and on inadequate infrastructure and where he was declared dead. Police were statements which could help in revealing and EVM Online and offline appli- of recognized political parties were the basis of the findings, the patients to impart education to informed and on the receipt of the infor- the reason behind the death. cations for permissions to use vehi- present during the meeting. Supreme Court has barred MBBS students. This was con- RKDF Medical College tested by the college which had Hospital and Research Centre challenged the report of the from admissions in its first year Government and the MCI. MBBS course for the next two In order to verify the alle- years 2018-19 and 2019-20. gations against the college, the The apex court has also Supreme Court in 2017 had directed its Secretary General constituted a committee head- to initiate prosecution against ed by a senior officer deputed the Dean of the college SS by the CBI Director and two Kushwaha and imposed a doctors of the AIIMS recom- penalty of Rs 5 crore for play- mended by the AIIMS ing fraud on it. The apex court Director. has directed the college to The CBI registered a pre- refund the fee paid by the stu- liminary enquiry and submit- dents for the academic year ted its report before the 2017-19 along with a compen- Supreme Court last year which sation of Rs one lakh to each included opinion of AIIMS student. doctors. The inquiry found that the "The Committee exposes college misled the Supreme the evil design of the college in Court by manipulating and resorting to deceitful methods filing of fabricated records. to cheat the authorities con- The assertion made by the cerned and this court to secure college regarding the genuine- permission for admission of ness of the patients in the hos- students. Apart from the pros- pital turned out to be false in ecution of the Dean, the college the enquiry conducted by the is liable to be suitably punished Committee which was com- for committing perjury," the prised of the officers of the CBI court said. SR   ()  * +,- ,.+/  2


 
 
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  +/ ,-A2 and Strategic Security Dialogue the Pulwama attack to ensure & Kashmir. Secretary Pompeo the Indo-Pacific region, and with his American counter- that the security situation in the expressed his understanding agreed to closely work togeth- ndia and the US on Monday parts, Under Secretary of State South Asia region did not dete- of India’s concerns regarding er. In response to Pompeo’s ref-  6     Iagreed that Pakistan must for Political Affairs David Hale riorate. Gokhale and Pompeo cross-border terrorism. erence to bilateral trade matters, take “concerted action” to dis- and Under Secretary of State for expressed satisfaction over the “They agreed that Pakistan the foreign secretary under- mantle terrorist infrastructure Arms Control and International significant progress and the needs to take concerted action scored the significant reduction   *+&*,- bilateral issues, officials said. Prince in February 2019. and deny safe haven to all ter- Security Andrea Thompson. quality of the India-US to dismantle the terrorist infra- in trade deficit in the last three “The Prime Minister thanked “Both the countries have ror groups on its soil as Foreign During the meeting, Strategic Partnership since structure and to deny safe years and conveyed India’s will- n a clear reference to the leadership of Saudi Arabia taken significant steps includ- Secretary Vijay Gokhale held Gokhale and Pompeo agreed Pompeo’s visit to India in haven to all terrorist groups in ingness to remain engaged with IPakistan, India on Friday for expressing full solidarity ing to boost trade and invest- talks with Secretary of State that those who support or abet September 2018 for the first its territory. They also agreed the US for a meaningful and conveyed to Saudi Arabia that with India in the fight against ment and to achieve $100 bil- Mike Pompeo here, the high- terrorism in any form should ever Ministerial 2+2 Dialogue. that those who support or abet mutually acceptable package that an “immediate, irreversible terrorism in all its forms and lion investment from Saudi est level meeting between the be held accountable, the The foreign secretary con- terrorism in any form should on trade issues. and verifiable action” to dis- manifestations,” the MEA said. Arabia into India, which was two countries after the Ministry of External Affairs veyed the appreciation to the US be held accountable,” the state- The trade deficit between mantle terror infrastructure is “It was agreed that Saudi announced during the visit of Pulwama terror attack that said in a statement. Government and to Pompeo ment said. India and the US has decreased essential to fight the menace of Arabia and India should work the Crown Prince,” the state- escalated Indo-Pak tensions. Pompeo was directly in personally for the firm support Gokhale and Pompeo also by nearly seven per cent to $1.6 terrorism. together for irreversible, veri- ment said. Gokhale arrived in the US touch with the leadership of that India received from the US discussed other issues of mutu- billion in 2018 as compared to This was conveyed during fiable and credible steps against At her meeting with Jubeir, on Sunday for the bilateral India and Pakistan and moni- in the aftermath of the terror- al interest, including the previous year, according to a meeting between External all terrorists without any dis- Swaraj is learnt to have raised Foreign Office Consultation tored the developments after ist attack in Pulwama in Jammu Afghanistan and cooperation in the latest official figures. Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj crimination,” it said. the issue of cross-border ter- and Saudi State Minister for Jubeir briefed Prime rorism and the need for ramp- Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir, Minister Modi on the follow up ing up pressure on Islamabad to /1 !! who paid a four-and-a-half- of the outcomes of the “histor- take action to dismantle terror     
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.   ! 4 Monday latched on to Rahul happening to Congress Party?” Jubeir held extensive talks Gandhi’s reference to terrorist Prasad said Gandhi has with Swaraj here with a focus organisation Jaish-e- caused huge pain to families of on deepening cooperation to ,4$  Mohammad’s head as “Masood martyrs and embarrassed the combat terrorism. It is learnt Azhar ji” to throw “Rahul loves country with his comments. that the recent tensions trig- New Delhi: Prime Minister though Islamabad was reach- terrorists” barb at the Congress Gandhi’s remarks showed the gered by the Pulwama attack Narendra Modi on Monday ing out to several foreign gov- chief, as the Opposition party Congress can go to any extent and India’s subsequent air strike held separate telephonic con- ernments for such a role. hit back accusing its rival of for votes, he said. on a terrorist training camp in versations with Turkish The official statement on deliberately twisting his com- “The Congress on one hand Pakistan also came up during President Recep Tayyip Modi’s conversation with ments made with sarcasm. insults our armed forces and the meeting. Erdogan and Abu Dhabi Erdogan said that the Prime Addressing a meeting of Indian Air Force by seeking evi- “They (Swaraj and Jubeir) Crown Prince Sheikh Minister stated that terrorism Congress workers here, Gandhi dence of their valour but hon- took note of significant devel- Mohammed bin Zayed Al- remains one of gravest threats attacked the BJP, saying, “These ours a murderer, a terrorist like opments after the visit of His Nahyan, while Saudi Arabia’s to global peace and security. people with 56 inch chest, you Azhar,” Prasad said. The BJP Royal Highness (Saudi Crown junior Foreign Minister called He underscored the would recall, in their previous leader added India is working to Prince Mohammad bin on him — engagements which importance of immediate, government, the current NSA have Azhar declared a global Salman) to India. EAM reiter- came in the backdrop of esca- demonstrable, and irreversible Ajit Doval went in an aircraft terrorist but Pakistan will now ated that an immediate irre- lating tensions between India action against terrorism by all with Masood Azhar ji and say even Indian leaders are giv- versible and verifiable action to and Pakistan. countries concerned, the handed over Masood Azhar ing the JeM chief respect. dismantle terror infrastructure It was not immediately Ministry of External Affairs there in Kandahar.” Congress chief spokesper- is essential to fight the menace known whether Indo-Pak ten- statement said, without men- %#  %  8%#%9         
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from Pakistan. The court was received his client’s application She pleaded that all eye- died on active duty, as martyrs. from a school of thought expected to deliver the verdict though e-mail. witnesses to the case from her Subsequently, the then PM wherein it is believed that  /    /,60/ in the case relating to the blast The woman sought exam- country were ready to appear Manmohan Singh’s office those who sacrifice their lives in the cross-border train in ination of the blast eyewitnesses before the court for their depo- referred the matter to a for the cause of the nation are   *+&*,- Kishtwar, Jammu & Kashmir,” special NIA court had to which 68 people, mostly from her country, contending sitions and they should be Committee of Secretaries (CoS) indeed martyrs in everyone’s the NIA spokesperson said. Adefer its verdict that was Pakistani nationals, were killed. that her co-nationals either examined in the interest of jus- on March 14, 2011. eyes, mind, heart and soul,” she he National Investigation After completing training, expected to be pronounced on Special Judge Jagdeep Singh did not receive proper sum- tice. Special Judge Singh asked “Further on, in the CoS said. Sitharaman said the Modi TAgency (NIA) Monday Zaman was directed to set up Monday in the 2007 Samjhauta listed the application of the monses from the court or were petitioner’s counsel why the meeting which was held on government in 2016 increased filed a chargesheet in connec- hideouts and select targets in Express blast case in which Pakistani woman Rahila Wakeel denied visas by authorities to plea was made at the fag end of 14th September 2011, the com- the ex-gratia lump sum com- tion with an alleged conspira- Uttar Pradesh and Assam for Swami Aseemanand is one of for hearing on March 14. appear before it. the trial, reminding him that mittee could not reach a com- pensation to families of cy of the Hizbul Mujahideen to terrorist attacks, he alleged. the accused after a last-minute Wakeel, the daughter of blast “The eyewitnesses/Pakistani several chances were given to mon consensus on giving deceased CAPF jawans from Rs carry out a terror attack in “On 8 April 2018, a pho- application by a Pakistani victim Muhammad Wakeel of witnesses do not have any all the 13 Pakistani witnesses to shahid/martyr status to CAPF 15 lakh to Rs 35 lakh in case of Uttar Pradesh in 2018, the tograph of Zaman brandishing woman. Dhingrawali village in knowledge about the ongoing record their statements before personnel who died on active deaths occurring in border agency said on Monday. an automatic AK-47 rifle In a surprise plea, the Hafizabad district of Pakistan, stage of the trial because no the court. duty. Thereafter, the matter skirmishes and action against In its chargesheet filed in a emerged on social media, was shelved altogether by militants. PTI special court in Lucknow, the which was posted by Mannan agency charged Kamruj Zaman Wani, a slain terrorist of Hizbul "P   . of Assam and absconding Mujahideen, on his Facebook accused Osama Bin Javed of account,” he said.   "+ 
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 belonging to his ex-wife European alleged middlemen this year has increased to Valerie, officials said. under the probe of the CBI and approximately 90 crore com-    ?@A 22   2 B Christian Michel James the Enforcement Directorate pared to 81.5 crore in 2014. was extradited from UAE to (ED) with the two others being According to the Election The Election Commission (EC) has appointed three eminent former civil servants as special India in December 2018. He Guido Haschke and Carlo Commission (EC) these observers for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections in Jammu & Kashmir. The observers was arrested on December 22, Gerosa. “young voters” constitute 1.66 are Amarjit Singh Gill, an IPS of 1972 Batch, former DG, CRPF, Noor Mohammad, IAS of 2018, under Section 19 of per cent of the total electors. 1977 and Vinod Zutshi, (IAS 1982). Prevention of Money The EC had allowed enrol-      B  Laundering Act (PMLA) and  <=
ment of “transgender persons” was subjected to custodial *     with gender mentioned as The Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora will hold meeting with Jammu & Kashmir admin- interrogation by in ED. :
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  ers enrolled in this category is leaders, including leaders of the Valley. who received kickbacks from  #+  38,325. The EC will set up the VVIP Chopper deal to the nearly 10.35 lakh polling sta- tune of Euro 42 million. During tions in the country, as com- the course of investigation, it   *+&*,- pared to nearly 9.28 lakh set up 1  ,      was revealed that funds were during 2014 polls. This marks transferred from Dubai-based he Enforcement Directorate an increase of 10.1 per cent. companies to various entities. T(ED) has filed a fresh “The increase is largely The ED investigation also chargesheet against Nirav Modi due to rationalisation of polling  ! +  revealed that Michel had trans- under the anti-money laun- stations, which the ferred the amount received as dering law in connection with Commission undertook in the   *+&*,- Jaitley said. their constituents are widely kickbacks to various entities, New Delhi: The ED has the 14,000 crore PNB scam. recent years,” the EC said. Writing in his blog, the different,” he added. including Euro 922185.76 attached assets worth 8.46 The chargesheet or the Nearly 39.6 lakh electron- sserting that the Finance Minister said the PDP On the other, Jaitley said equivalent to 5,83,40,422 to crore of Delhi-based lawyer prosecution complaint in ED ic voting machines and 17.4 AOpposition represents a and the National Conference within the NDA there are no his ex-wife Valerie, and subse- Gautam Khaitan, an accused in parlance against Modi has been    "    lakh paper trail or voter verifi- bagful of contradictory parties tried to form the Government leadership issues. quently to SCI Solaime for the 3,600 crore VVIP chopper filed before a special Prevention  )!   able paper trail machines would rivaling each other at State-lev- together with the support “There is absolute clarity. investment in purchase of the scam case, as part of a second of Money Laundering Act *&    " 
be used in these polling stations. els, Union Minister Arun of the Congress in Jammu Shri Narendra Modi leads the attached property. criminal probe against him for (PMLA) court in Mumbai,       These include reserves. One Jaitley on Monday said the & Kashmir. NDA and will be the Prime The agency would soon allegedly possessing undis- officials said.   
 control unit and at least one bal- choice before the people in “Today they are rivals in Minister in the event of the send the attachment order to its closed foreign accounts. The This is a supplementary   ) " lot unit where buttons are 2019 Lok Sabha poll is an election and on the dan- NDA victory. His leadership is French counterpart and the ED has provisionally attached chargesheet against the dia- /H/I)  placed constitutes EVM. between “Modi or chaos”. gerous agenda of either ‘auton- nationally accepted, his ratings asset would be seized and held properties of Khaitan. mantaire and few others and )!  This time, the visually “What was promised to be omy’ or ‘pre-1953 status’ but are very high. His track record with a competent court in While the book value of the agency has recorded addi-   )  !   impaired and blind voters will ‘Mahagathbandhan’ is turning could join hands with the speaks for itself,” Jaitley added. France till the case was finalised these properties is 8.46 crore, tional evidences gathered  "   "  be provided with braille voter out to be a ‘gathbandhan’ of gathbandhan,” he said. The Finance Minister fur- and the accused convicted in the present market value of in the case and attachments  !       slips to cast their vote. Braille several conflicting gathband- Coming hard on Congress ther said the contest in the India, the officials added. these properties is much high- made during the ongoing   "   is a script with raised dots that hans. It is a self-destructive president Rahul Gandhi on the forthcoming Lok Sabha elec- Further investigations to er. The attached properties are probe, they said.      can be read with fingers by ‘coalition of rivals’. The BSP leadership issue, Jaitley said tion is between a trusted leader identify the remaining located in Delhi, Haryana and The development comes
  "   people who are blind or who and the SP will contest against Rahul “is a inadequate leader. Modi and secure, and opposi- Proceeds of Crime are under Uttarakhand and have been two days after a British daily   have low vision. It is a tactile the Congress but eventually He is tried, tested and failed. tion parties coalition with no progress, the officials added. attached under the Prevention reported that Nirav Modi, reading and writing system join hands. So will the His lack of understanding of projected leader.  -        Meanwhile, a Delhi court of Money Laundering Act accused in the $2-billion O    06# used by blind and visually Trinamool and the Congress- issues is frightening. He aspires “There are multiple lead- on Monday sought a response (PMLA), the agency said in a Punjab National Bank (PNB)  A
!  impaired people who cannot Left alliance in West Bengal. to be the leader of this chaot- ers (in the opposition), each from Tihar Jail authorities on statement. scam, is living in a swanky 8- !)"  = ! access print material. However, in Kerala, the ic pack.” trying to outwit the other. the ED’s plea to interrogate The ED initiated investi- million pound apartment in   1-  *& As part of its strategy Congress and the Left will On the other, Mamata They can only promise a tem- gation under the provisions of London’s West End and is now       framework for ‘accessible elec- contest against each other,” Didi, he said is positioning porary Government if we go PMLA on the basis of a case involved in a new diamond  "  tions’, the Commission has herself as the ‘sutradhar’ of this by the past precedents. One  3:     booked by Income Tax business. 
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 comments on policy issues are integrity and honesty and ndia and the UK will discuss eficial interest/ownership in the relevant court in the UK, Mumbai through illegal letters already have the braille feature. ❝ 1    retrograde.” India is capable of tough deci- Ithe entire range of maritime foreign assets/company/account sources said. of credit. The ballot paper pasted on the   "  The senior BJP leader fur- sions in order to ensure co-operation during Navy chief and had failed to disclose the The ED had said on The agency had also machine with name and symbol " ) ther said the Opposition growth to enable India to Admiral Sunil Lanba’s four-day same in his return of income Saturday that the United attached his assets worth of candidates is braille-enabled.
) =  alliance is unclear and is secure itself. visit to London starting filed before the Income Tax Kingdom’s Home Secretary has 1,873.08 crore under the The EC also plans to provide absolutely fragile. “The contest is between a Tuesday. The two navies have Authorities. It was also revealed recently referred India’s request PMLA and has seized assets braille election photo identity ❝ 1 " “None of the political par- leader in whose hand the traditional links and Lanba during investigation that he for extraditing the tainted busi- linked to him and his family cards to visually challenged "   ties is capable of any signifi- country is developing and during his talks with UK Navy had been found laundering nessman to a court for initiat- worth 489.75 crore during the voters across the country.  #!  ! cant number of seats. The secure. He is trusted. Against counterparts will explore new money in various personal and ing legal proceedings against ongoing probe. The Lok Sabha elections 
    alliance will not have a stable him it is no one projected avenues to further strengthen companies’ bank accounts in him. Nirav Modi, 48, is currently will begin on April 11 and con- )  nucleus. It has a set of highly leader. There are multiple the Defence ties. Singapore and Mauritius and The ED had filed the first living in a three-bedroom flat tinue for over a month till May 1.   ambitious, self-centred and leaders, each trying to outwit The relations between the that he willfully did not disclose chargesheet in this case in May occupying half of a floor of the 19 across seven phases. The    "  maverick leaders. the other. They can only two Navies have come a long the relevant information relat- last year. landmark Centre Point tower counting of votes will be held !!!  “Barring the Congress and promise a temporary way since institutionalisation of ed to the foreign bank accounts The agency and the CBI block in London, where rent is on May 23, the Election   the Left, most of them have Government if we go by the various Defence forums for and companies which are ben- are investigating Nirav Modi, estimated to be 17,000 pounds Commission announced on )  done political business with past precedents. One can be enhancing bilateral relationship eficially owned by him,” the his uncle Mehul Choksi and a month, The Telegraph of the Sunday, kick-starting a mega    the BJP in the past. Their ide- certain of chaos,” the BJP between the two countries. agency added. PNS others for alleged money laun- UK had reported. electoral battle. ologies and commitment to leader maintained. With the constitution of the India-UK Defence Consultative Group (DCG) and the Military Sub Group (MSG) in 1995, a ? # "      6$  4 two-tier structure of coopera- tion was established to progress various areas of defence coop- eration, Navy officials said on 6


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    two countries inked a pact to New Delhi: In a real life plot MBBS students. This was con- embark upon a strategic part-   *+&*,- and Delhi 487. The highest resembling the Sanjay Dutt tested by the college which had nership in which Defence number of properties left by starrer film Munna Bhai MBBS, challenged the report of the New Delhi: A former DGP of cooperation figured promi- he Centre has allowed State Chinese nationals is in a medical college in Bhopal Government and the MCI. Uttar Pradesh and an environ- nently. The ‘Service-level Staff TGovernments to take some Meghalaya (57).West Bengal allegedly admitted fake and In order to verify the alle- mentalist have urged the Talks’ forum, officially referred enemy properties for public has 29 such properties and ghost patients to comply with gations against the college, the Supreme Court to direct the to as ‘Executive Steering Group’ use. The move comes amid the Assam seven. minimum requirements of Supreme Court in 2017 had Election Commission (EC) to is the primary mechanism of Central Government’s efforts to “The estimated value of all Medical Council of India, a CBI constituted a committee head- ban roadshows and bike rallies enhancing cooperation sell more than 9,400 enemy enemy properties is approxi- enquiry has found. ed by a senior officer deputed by during polls, saying they violate between the two Armed Forces. properties, worth over 1 lakh mately 1 lakh crore,” Union On the basis of the findings the CBI Director and two doc- EC’s instructions and cause Indian Navy and Royal Navy crore, and 3,000 crore worth Minister of State for Home of the agency, the Supreme tors of the AIIMS recommend- damage to the environment. are partners in the Indian Ocean of enemy shares. Hansraj Gangaram Ahir had Court has barred RKDF 4  !56 347 !8 ed by the AIIMS Director. The The plea, filed by former Naval Symposium (IONS), a The guidelines for dispos- told the Rajya Sabha last year. Medical College Hospital and "94445! 7 CBI registered a preliminary director general of police maritime co-operation construct al of the Enemy Property The Central Government last Research Centre from admis-   (7#!; enquiry and submitted its report Vikram Singh and environ- conceptualised and pioneered by Order, 2018 have been amend- month had constituted a high- sions in its first year MBBS ;3 8!"36  8#  before the Supreme Court last mentalist Shaivika Agrawal, Indian Navy in 2008. The Royal ed to facilitate “usages of enemy level committee to recommend course for the next two years #7!#5<#8"3 year which included opinion of was mentioned for urgent list- Navy participated in the 10th property by the State the quantum and price or price 2018-19 and 2019-20. 6!3;376 !" AIIMS doctors. ing on Monday before a bench anniversary celebrations of IONS Government exclusively for band for sale of enemy shares, The apex court has also 7!!774>!4735 “The Committee exposes comprising Chief Justice Ranjan at Kochi in November 2018. The public use”, according to a worth 3,000 crore. directed its Secretary General #!;  3;! 35#!( the evil design of the college in Gogoi and Justices Deepak bilateral naval exercise Konkan recent notification issued by the A total 6,50,75,877 shares to initiate prosecution against >!4"53# resorting to deceitful methods Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna. is a significant operational link Home Ministry. in 996 companies of 20,323 the Dean of the college SS to cheat the authorities con- The Bench, however, between the two navies and is Enemy properties are those shareholders are under the Kushwaha and imposed a regarding the genuineness of the cerned and this court to secure refused to accord urgent listing. held every year, alternately off the properties that were left behind custody of the Custodian of penalty of 5 crore for playing patients in the hospital turned permission for admission of In their plea, the petition- coast of India and the UK. The by the people who took citi- Enemy Property for India, fraud on it. out to be false in the enquiry students. Apart from the pros- ers have said roadshows and two navies also interact on a host zenship of Pakistan and China. another official said. Of these The apex court has direct- conducted by the Committee ecution of the Dean, the college bike rallies during election and a convoy cannot have of issues like training, doctrinal There are 9,280 such properties companies, 588 are functional ed the college to refund the fee which was comprised of the is liable to be suitably punished period cause air and noise pol- more than ten vehicles. concepts and maritime domain left behind by Pakistani nation- or active companies, 139 of paid by the students for the aca- officers of the CBI and medical for committing perjury,” the lution and traffic jams which As per EC’s instructions, it awareness. als and 126 by Chinese nation- these are listed and the remain- demic year 2017-19 along with experts,” an official said. court said. result in inconvenience to the added, two convoys must During the visit, Lanba is als, an official of the Ministry ing are unlisted. a compensation of 1 lakh to The Central Government The MCI in its inspection general public. maintain a distance of at least scheduled to hold discussions said. Of the total properties left The act was amended in each student. and Medical Council of India in 2015 had found that the col- The plea, drawn by advo- 200 metres, more than half the with the Chief of Defence Staff, behind by those who took 2017 to ensure that the suc- The enquiry found that the had highlighted before the lege, for the purpose of grant- cate Virag Gupta, said instruc- road cannot be covered and the UK in London and the First Sea Pakistani citizenship, 4,991 are cessors of those who migrated college misled the Supreme Supreme Court gross mal- ing admission for 2014-15, tions issued by the EC with number of vehicles and persons Lord and Chief of the Naval located in Uttar Pradesh, the to Pakistan and China will Court by manipulating and fil- practices in the college and admitted fake patients and regard to roadshows and polit- joining the roadshow has to be Staff of the Royal Navy at highest in the country. West have no claim over the prop- ing of fabricated records. “The inadequate infrastructure and others who were without any ical processions mandate that intimated to authorities in Portsmouth. Bengal has 2,735 such estates erties left behind in India. assertion made by the college patients to impart education to significant illness. PTI vehicles must be registered advance. PTI   ()  * +,- ,.+/    8      !J    L &    " !!J   J 8%(.? 66() .
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Two         (     # .<$     years ago in March, 2017, the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, J S Kehar had          (       )  ( suggested a negotiated settlement and had              O(       offered himself as a mediator. However, this %;#                 proposal did not find favour with the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIM-      )  4 @  4;!=         %  PLB) and the Babri Masjid Action said it was committed to the settlement, one issue that came structure. The Supreme Court          $     (4  9  Committee. construction of a Ram temple to the fore was whether a Hindu has stayed this judgement after  3  2              This time around, objections if any are and a mosque, but their actual temple existed on the site and it was challenged by several par- muted, probably because of the court’s deter- location will be determined whether it was demolished to ties to the dispute.                  mination to get all parties to the negotiat- only after the Supreme Court built the masjid. Muslim organ- It is not unusual for courts     ing table. renders its opinion in the isations claimed that there was to suggest mediation. This is # .<$                *,      The Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Presidential Reference. no evidence to prove this. often suggested by courts in   9             ;        dispute has taken a torturous course, but The government made the Muslim leaders also asserted many civil matters because some of the milestones in recent times are following commitments before that if this was proved, “the there are no winners and losers                      notable. The first of these was the Supreme the apex court in that submis- Muslims would voluntarily when issues are resolved   2A  B  C . 4     2     ( Court’s judgement in Dr M Ismail Faruqui sion: That it would treat the hand over the disputed shrine through mediation. However, if                  $   % and others vs Union of India and others in finding of the Supreme Court to the Hindus”. mediation fails, the court will October, 1994. In that case, the constitution- on the question of fact referred The Supreme Court have to hear the matter and 7           ! %  S    al validity of the Acquisition of Certain Areas to it in the Presidential declined to answer this ques- arrive at a conclusion, which   2   . S         ) of Ayodhya Act, 1993 was challenged. The Reference as a verdict which is tion. The five-judge Bench may or may not please all par-                 (.<$   court upheld the Act but declared its final and binding; that consis- //4-* 2,* which gave its verdict in the ties in a dispute. Section 4(3) to be invalid. This judgment tent with the court’s opinion it Faruqui Case in October, 1994 Meanwhile, what will the $          0$ 8          resulted in the revival of all pending suits would make efforts to resolve &- 0*+-**& simultaneously disposed off the Union Government do? It has                     before the Allahabad High Court. the controversy by a process of 2.2-,- Presidential Reference. It said committed itself to initially try # 2                  The second milestone is the sovereign negotiation; that if a negotiated the reference was ‘superfluous and settle the dispute through commitment given by the Government of settlement is not possible, it *''24+-,20 and unnecessary and does not negotiations once it heard                     ( India in September, 1994, before the would be committed to enforce ,* -/-2- require to be answered”. from the Supreme Court on   # =              .  Supreme Court that if it was established that a solution based on the court’s However, the Union the question of fact it had put    S       4          a Hindu temple or religious structure exist- opinion. It further said that “If 24&*424* 2B* Government’s desire to secure before it in the Presidential ed before the Babri Masjid, it would hand the question referred is ,*/*4 an answer to the million dollar Reference. The court however     #         D       ( over the site to the Hindus. The Union answered in the affirmative, question was met when the declined to answer that ques-                      Government had made a Presidential namely, that a Hindu ,420A,00/ Allahabad High Court, the tion, but the observations                 ( Reference under Article 143(1) of the temple/structure did exist prior A-B*/&/6* pending suits before which got made in the white paper and Constitution in which it asked the Supreme to the construction of the revived as a result of the the ASI’s substantive report to        #         A ( Court “Whether a Hindu temple or any demolished structure, govern- ,*30 A-B* Supreme Court’s order in the the Allahabad High Court       #               Hindu religious structure existed prior to the ment action will be in support *&-/-2/ Faruqui Case, ordered the cannot be wished away.                   construction of the Ram Janmabhoomi- of the wishes of the Hindu com- Archaeological Survey of India The three mediators Babri Masjid (including the premises of the munity. 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In respect of women, 77 per cent now #             1 own a bank account against respective 43 per 7             cent and 26 per cent in 2014 and 2011. On this basic measure of financial inclusion, females are some salient features of financial prod- form of small amounts saved daily that cy of women and men, and that has a #            more financially included than before. India has ucts and services that foster women’s need to be banked quickly to prevent strong bearing on women's motiva- 1          $ # cut its gender gap in financial access from 19.8 active participation in formal finance. them from being spent. Formal cred- tions, choices and possibilities.               ( percentage points in 2014 to 6.4 in 2017. They find that women don’t have a it histories are virtually non-existent. At the same time, gender disaggre-              However, a more granular analysis shows ,*4*- /**& straight financial journey and have There is heavy reliance on informal gated data is extremely essential for          D         that gender gaps is still worrying. While more 2&***,* more interruptions and life-stages in networks like friends and family for designing of suitable financial products      1            ( women have been enrolled for bank accounts, 0&*4 /&-A their financial lives due to withdraw- financing big-ticket needs. that can appropriately address women's     )    %    < ' a larger gender gap persists in their usage. And 2',*0-P0* al from employment during pregnan- Women clients, particularly in needs. We can use time series data to bet- 1  %    4       beyond account ownership, in terms of credit **& 2' cy and in medical emergencies for rural areas, find interacting with male ter understand women's lives and their           (   and insurance usage, the gender gap remains +2* nursing sick family members. They staff at banks an intimidating experi- needs, and accordingly address supply #                  high. For example, female account owners 2 0*4 /& may remain active users of the accounts ence and may not trust banks as they side disparities to create customised, show an 11-percentage-point gap against men during these periods. Women should are not considered part of their trust- affordable, convenient, and reliable finan-             7  in terms of account usage; 54 per cent of women &*B*2 be able to reactivate their accounts ed service-providers. To overcome cial products for women.  4 %   with an account made no deposit or withdraw- 42&0 /& without much hassles or penalties. such psychological barriers, financial Greater women's financial inclu- #             al in a year as compared to 43 per cent of men. 0 2*4 They are also more price-point sensi- institutions can increase women staff, sion doesn't necessarily require gender-                   The credit gender gap is still more stark. *5*4-** tive and expect affordable fees. and appoint dedicated ones to serve specific policies or making finance pink,   4($    #   $   Distribution of outstanding credit in small bor- /-24*&2 The single best way to increase female customers because most of but rather policies that work for women.             0; H*,(5- ( rower accounts shows 24.5 per cent share of ,* ***&  account use would be to more fully them have a preference for a non- Some banks ‘feminise’ the name or        (       female account owners against 72 per cent by ,- &2* O digitise government transfers. Women intimidating environment. Women brand colour of the product. These sales              ( men as on March 2017. 20&-6* without accounts frequently interact customers are likelier to entrust such tactics may not work. We need an               0; H5  Women often face several barriers which 426* -** with governmental offices to make pay- a retailer with their finances. They look enabling environment that incorporates )              #   ( limit their financial inclusion, other than the uni- /&-- O# ments (P2G) or to receive payments for a consistently high-quality experi- women’s perspectives. They are different versal constraints that low-income communities from them (G2P). Fees paid to access ence, and the qualities they look for in from men, due to their gender-diverse life               face: limited access to mobile phones, lower lit- *5*,/,* public services and payments for pub- these experiences include ‘trustworthi- cycle needs and associated risks, result-                 ( eracy levels, less confidence in using technolo- '-/-/ lic utilities are still made mostly in cash ness’, ‘understanding’, ‘dependability’ ing from constraints imposed by society     ;            gy and restrictions on travel or social interac- 42&0 in the developing world, and if pay- and ‘accessibility’. In failing to develop and laws and biological differences.                 tion. We need to address them through behav- 044*3 ment was required to be made through client experiences rooted in men and Women spend, invest, borrow, manage                   ioural and reformist approaches, instead of the /B/-/1*2 electronic means it could help a first women’s fundamentally different per- and protect money differently than men.      usual hardware-based approach, so that demand +2*/4* interaction with a digital payments sys- spectives on finance, monetary services They prioritise services based on prefer- =        4($ ( and supply-side barriers that women face in 2* 2' tem. Many state governments in India institutions are missing a very signif- ences including safety, security, easy                 accessing finance are eliminated. 4*A0/4 have adopted the default savings icant business opportunity. access, low cost, privacy from friends and  (     .     ) (3      Women’s participation in the financial sys- 42&0  options by mandatorily delivering all Employing more women as bank family and husbands and trust in          )     ( tem can have significant benefits in terms of eco- wages to participants of government tellers or mobile money agents can providers. nomic growth, greater equality and societal well- schemes and programmes through make it easier for more from the sex Similarly, the insurance needs of             ( being. When women are empowered as econom- formal saving accounts. For example, to board financial services. Women women are different from those of men                 ic actors, the benefits touch everyone. They have the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural want financial services delivered to as they are more at risk of losing their    $ #           more child-centered preferences than men. Employment Guarantee Act (MNRE- them by someone who is experiencing income because of pregnancy, divorce or        2       Access and usage of financial services are GA) states that at least one-third of its the same issues as them. The country separation, as well as cultural norms and      8        )  levers for increasing women's participation in beneficiaries should be women and has only five per cent women as socio-economic patterns. The insurance  4          4S the economy. They enhance their self-confidence their payments should be delivered via Business Correspondents (BCs). India industry can play a major role in increas-          $    and place financial decision-making power in electronic transfers to bank accounts has 8.7 million Self-Help Groups ing financial protection for women       1          ( their hands resulting in large development pay- Providers will need to deepen (SHGs) comprising more than 100 mil- through approaches that target their spe-             offs. their understanding of the unique lion women members. The number of cific needs, particularly coverage for =                  Women are a low-revenue segment but needs of women consumers and devel- SHGs in the BC space needs to be their illness, pregnancy, various life- prove to be loyal and profitable clients when op products and customer experi- stepped up. cycle transitions, while protecting their                treated with respect and served with appropri- ences tailored to these needs. This To make financial inclusion for savings to cope with financial chal-   9              ately-designed products. Women are more risk- doesn’t sound like rocket science and women more relevant and meaningful, lenges. 4           1  aware than men and take longer to make deci- it isn’t, except that the financial prod- we also need to sensitise men to the In short, what is needed for a broad-               sions but they make firm decisions and when ucts currently available to women are peculiarities and needs of their female er, deeper and more relevant and mean- 4    1              they do, they tend to be more trustworthy and clones of regular products and do not gender. The inadequacies of focussing ingful financial inclusion is a nuanced  reliable customers than men. Financial match their distinct income, expendi- on women in isolation have long been approach that tackles the underlying, 4       "         service-providers need to ensure that the fees are ture and savings patterns. For example, recognised: women live in communi- interconnected barriers that women face               ( not prohibitive and the design tools which are income, which is mostly from their ties, they live in families, and they live in accessing and using financial services.                 ( used make their engagement with financial ser- casual employment, tends to be more with men. Abstracting women from (The writer is Member, NITI     7 G vice-providers friendly, safe, affordable and con- irregular and unpredictable, often cob- their social realities distorts our under- Aayog's National Committee on          venient. bled together from various sources. standing of the relational nature of gen- Financial Literacy and Inclusion for Professionals and practitioners have distilled Savings are limited; often taking the dered power and the interdependen- Women)      )                              ;1,)!6?             

their products to consumers. The sharing of ‘sensitive’ data with third the fundamental rights of citizens to and minimising security risk. The This approach guided by the platform owner can only provide parties (including foreign govern- privacy; (iii) safeguard national insistence on access to source code philosophy of mutual trust and support services viz. warehousing, ments) even when the consumer security. and algorithms of AI systems accommodation will also help in logistics, order fulfillment and so on consents to such storage. The poli- Even as the policy is expected to appears to be too stringent a require- capturing all the digital transactions to the vendor but not undertake cy requires foreign companies to set strike a fine balance between the ment which is bound to be resisted needed for garnering tax revenue — direct selling. Vide a circular dated up domestic data storage; mandato- three objectives, looking at the pro- by the foreign majors. indirect and direct — from the December 26, 2018, it was further rily register business locally and have posals, one gets a sense that there is Instead of going for such vendors as well as the marketplace clarified that the owner [or its group a representative; give the govern- disproportionate emphasis on pro- extreme steps, the government may owner. %> ! company] can neither hold equity ment access to source code and algo- tection of the data. Indeed, this is consider a ‘pragmatic’ and ‘flexible’ There are loopholes in the extant nor control the inventory of the ven- rithms of AI systems. being pushed to a point whereby this arrangement to address the concerns policy on FDI in e-commerce mar- ith increasing penetration dor. The draft proposes continuation might even stifle innovation, dis- on protection of ‘sensitive’ data. Its ketplace which are being exploited by 2 024 of internet, surging mid- In the process of conducting of the extant policy on FDI in mar- courage foreign investment and approach should be one of risk foreign majors to get into direct sell- 14*5-4*'*4*&0 Wdle-class and focus on cus- their businesses, these companies ketplace and stresses the need for affect growth. assessment, identification of misuse ing. The December 26, 2018 circular tomer convenience and affordable generate data of millions of cus- giving access of these platforms to The requirement for foreign and timely pre-emptive action taken has not helped much. In a scenario    " pricing, online retail commerce in tomers. Advanced techniques such small traders and retailers and players to mandatorily register the in collaboration with the foreign of their being completely barred 3)A
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"  )    reaching about US $40 billion dur- more can be used to track consumer ner. It moots setting up of e-con- from investing here as the cost and Let this be understood in no they would simply pack up. So, the ing 2017. This is projected to behavior/history and target poten- sumer courts to consider and redress hassles of running businesses and ambiguous terms that merely by tak- way forward is to allow 100 per cent "
"     '  increase five-fold to US $200 billion tial consumers with customised grievances. It suggests taxation of meeting regulatory requirements ing possession of the ‘data key’ FDI in retail in both ‘online’ and 1  !  by 2026. marketing content. The data may electronic transactions. increase. The insistence on having (read: source code and algorithms of ‘offline’ — without any riders. This . ! O 
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  Amazon,Walmart/Flipkart and so on In this backdrop, a draft policy sector; instead, a standing group of ophy of digital transactions germane remain with the company which traders and retailers. The government under a policy notified in 2016-17 on e-commerce — put up by the secretaries is mandated to address to e-commerce. should ensure that all necessary needs to rehash the policy draft   L )   M which allowed 100 per cent foreign Department for Promotion of the regulatory issues. The policy Similarly, the cost and hassles measures are in place to protect the shunning its overly rigid and protec- )    O  direct investment (FDI) in the mar- Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) needs to be evaluated on three main associated with asking foreign com- data and address security concerns. tionist stance and instead build on )" 1   ketplace model of e-commerce. for public comments — focusses on planks viz. (i) promoting business- panies to set up server/data collec- If need be, penalty may be imposed ‘flexibility’ and ‘trust’ to maximise the   )! The marketplace is an electron- protection of such data, restrictions es to catapult Indian economy to a tion centre has to be weighed against for non-compliance. There is an deliverables. L     ic platform on which vendors sell on its cross-border movement and high growth trajectory; (ii) protect the objective of preventing misuse urgent need to set up a regulator. (The writer is a policy analyst)   ()  * +,- ,.+/  @

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Partho Chatterjee said “this is the battle lines for the 2019 Lok      –up while the DMK-led UPA Confident of winning all The Congress will declare unprecedented measure. No Sabha elections have been drawn      has the Congress, the CPI(M), the 42 seats, the party is ready its seat following discussions one knows the reason behind in Tamil Nadu. The DMK-led the CPI, Muslim League, VCK, with its candidates” list which with the Left, PCC sources said conducting a 7-phase election. front will take on the AIADMK-     Kongunadu Jananayaka Katchi, may include some surprises adding former PCC president No one but the common peo- led front in the 39 constituencies    Indian Democratic Party and sources said. With Chief Adhir Chowdhury will contest ple will face hardship due to from Tamil Nadu and the lone      the Manithaneya Makkal Katchi Minister Mamata Banerjee Congress is likely to get a giving a second thought. There from Behrampore, Abhijeet this decision of the ECI.” constituency in the Union as its constituents. already announcing her target microscopic 8 percent. The they will find that it is the Mukherjee son of former pres- Attacking the Commission Territory of Puducherry in the %   As on Monday evening, the of “42 out of 42” seats, senior survey was however conduct- Trinamool and the BJP which ident Pranab Mukherjee will for leaving “gray areas” in its poll to be held on April 18. AIADMK has been left with 21 party leader and a Minister ed before the alliance was remains by their side through- contest from Jangipur and Abu directions regarding advertise- The AIADMK has allocat- Palaniswamy and DMDK Lok Sabha constituencies. from North 24 Parganas said struck between the Left and the out the year. So we will win all Hasem Khan Chowdhury will ments in the media about the ed the DMDK four parliamen- founder Vijayakanth in a city Sources in the AIADMK and the “we are working in that direc- Congress. the 42 seats. The BJP will lose fight from Malda South seat. absconding people with non- tary constituencies in the elec- hotel, the DMDK would be BJP told The Pioneer that there tion and the party will ensure Currently the TMC has 34 the existing two seats even.” Isha Khan Chowdhury a local bailable charges, the Minister tion. Though Vijayakanth, the allocated four seats in return for is a possibility of the G K Vasan- that campaigns begin early.” seats, the Congress has four Apart from the TMC the MLA and the nephew of late said “they have said that such founder of the DMDK has the support of the party for the led Tamil Manila Congress Incidentally, a Bengal television seats while the Left and the BJP BJP is also likely to announce Bengal Congress patriarch advertisement has to be given insisted that his party should be AIADMK-led front in the Lok pitching itself in the AIADMK channel on Tuesday predicted have 2 seats each. its candidate-list by the end of ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury in three newspapers or televi- allocated seven Lok Sabha seats Sabha election. The DMDK front. “Please wait for one or two 34 seats for the ruling party Reacting to the Sunday”s this week. According to sources is likely to contest from Malda sion channels but it is not and a Rajya Sabha seat (the would extent support to the days. We will give you some “should the elections are held predictions the Minister said three senior Bengal leaders North, sources said. Son of clear as to which newspaper package which was given by the AIADMK candidates in the by- good news,” said Edappadu today.” The channel has pre- who is also known for his Dilip Ghosh, Rahul Sinha and PCC president may contest should be selected for purring AIADMK to the PMK), the rul- election to be held from the 21 Palaniswamy when asked about dicted 8 wins for the BJP organisational capacity said, Mukul Roy were currently in against TMC MP and Mamata such advertisements. ing party in the State stood its Assembly constituencies in the the possibility of Vasan (son of whereas one, mighty Left Front “we will win all the seats. The Delhi to hold discussion with Banerjee”s nephew Abhishek The BJP and the Left on ground. The DMDK was further State. former Congress leader late G K and its probable ally Congress current upswing in (Prime party president Amit Shah. Banerjee from Diamond the other hand met the Chief embarrassed when the DMK It was announced by the Moopanar ) joining the front. will draw a blank. Minister) Narendra Modi”s After the meeting with Shah Harbour sources said. Electoral Officer and demand- leadership told the media that Election Commission that 18 The AIADMK allocating The channel has predicted favour is because of bombing in the party will draw the final list Meanwhile, the TMC on ed the removal of posters and the former was holding parallel Assembly constituencies would 18 seats to alliance partners a total of 42 percent votes for Pakistan. But that fervor will go which will be declared this Monday questioned the logic hordings of Chief Minister parley with them for a better go to the poll on April 18 while mean that 19 party MPs the TMC, 34 percent votes for in a month”s time as the cam- week, insiders said. behind conducting seven- Mamata Banerjee and her deal. the bypoll to the three con- who had won the 2014 Lok the BJP and a paltry 15 percent paigns intensify and the people The CPI(M) on the other phase polling in Bengal charg- nephew Abhishek from streets According to the deal signed stituencies would be held later as Sabha election may not get seats votes for the Left Front. The will soon come back to reality has already declared a list of 15 ing the Election Commission of corners. by Chief Minister Edappadi the High Court is hearing peti- this time. 6' +0%  $#+ %!   >"   ( A B"   #    :  A)/    4
  /,*&/1/& Congress because of infighting. High Court in February. Itanagar: A Congress MLA in Aizawl: A 36-year-old man I have realised that only BJP Sabariya said he was not Arunachal Pradesh defected Chennai: The DMK on Monday necessary the Supreme Court,” belonging to the Chakma com- day ahead of the Congress can ensure people’s well-being,” under pressure to join the BJP to the BJP on Monday, a day urged the Election Commission so that bypolls could be held in munity was severely injured on AWorking Committee he said after joining the party. and claimed he was making the after the Election Commission to hold bypolls to three more these three seats, he said. Monday after he wandered into meeting here, Jamnagar “After the recent (February switch to develop his con- announced simultaneous Lok vacant Assembly seats besides On bypolls, he said only Myanmar and stepped on a (Rural) MLA Vallabh 26) air strikes on Pakistan stituency. Sabha and Assembly polls in the 18 segments for which DMK candidates would be field- landmine, official sources in Dharaviya on Monday quit (terror camp), I have realised “I am joining the BJP to the state on April 11. byelections have been scheduled ed in all the 18 constituencies. south Mizoram’s Lawngtlai dis- the party, tendered his resig- that Modi must be re-elected develop my constituency. I Markio Tado represented on April 18 alongside Lok Sabha To a question, he said his trict said. nation from the Gujarat as Prime Minister. The was not under any pressure Tali constituency in Kra Daadi polls in Tamil Nadu. party’s election manifesto would The incident occurred at a Assembly and joined the BJP. Congress does not have such and have resigned from the district of the BJP-ruled State. At a meeting of its district be released in two to three days. jungle in the neighbouring Dharaviya’s is the third leadership,” he further said. Congress voluntarily. As far as Tado said he submitted secretaries, MPs, and MLAs While Ottapidaram and country near the Indo-Myanmar resignation of a Congress MLA Dharaviya belongs to the the FIR is concerned, the law his resignation letter to state here, the main Opposition party Aravakurichi were represented border’s boundary pillar number in the past four days. Sathwara community, part of will take its own course. The Congress president Takam adopted a resolution which said restrained from holding bypolls by disqualified AIADMK MLAs two, the sources said. “Dharaviya has resigned as the Other Backward Classes, BJP has to do nothing about it. Sanjoy and joined the BJP. not holding bypolls to the three to the three constituencies by the Sundararaj and Senthil Balaji (he The man along with two Jamnagar (Rural) MLA. He which has a strong electoral I am not joining BJP to get any “The Congress has no Assembly constituencies was court.” is now with the DMK), others, all residents of told me he is resigning volun- presence in Jamnagar district. post or for other benefits,” he vision for the future of the State. “anti-democratic.” The resolution, hence, Tiruparankudram legislator AK Bangdukbanga village, wan- tarily,” Speaker Rajendra A little while before told reporters. So I joined the BJP in the larg- Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral demanded that the EC hold Bose died last year. dered into Myanmar while look- Trivedi confirmed. Dharaviya quit Monday after- On March 8, Jawahar er interest of the State and the Officer Satyabrata Sahoo had on bypolls to these three con- Petitions challenging their ing for food. It was a homecoming for noon, his former party col- Chavda, Congress MLA from people of my constituency,” he Sunday said bypolls were not stituencies. elections are pending in the He was severely injured Dharaviya who was with the league Parsotam Sabariya, who Manavadar, too had resigned told a press conference. scheduled for DMK president M K Stalin Madras High Court. when a landmine exploded after BJP earlier before switching had resigned as Dhrangadhra from the Assembly and was The State has witnessed Tiruparankundram, said his party’s Rajya Sabha Meanwhile, DMK’s losing he accidentally stepped on it, the over to the Congress ahead of MLA on March 8, joined the promptly inducted into the BJP. rapid development under the Ottapidaram and Aravakurichi MPs Tiruchy Siva and TKS candidate S Saravanan, who has sources said, adding, the 36- the 2017 Assembly polls and ruling BJP in the presence of its He was made a Cabinet Pema Khandu Government, constituencies, which are also Elangovan would submit a challenged the victory of Bose in year-old man lost his right leg in winning on the Opposition senior leaders IK Jadeja and Minister in the Vijay Rupani he claimed. vacant, since election petitions memorandum to the Election the bypoll held on November 19, the blast. The two others accom- party’s ticket. KC Patel. Government on March 9. Tado had won from Tali as were pending in the Madras Commission seeking holding 2016, Monday filed a petition in panying him escaped unhurt, “I am originally a BJP sol- Sabariya was arrested in The total number of deser- a Peoples’ Party of Arunachal High Court. bypolls to these constituencies. the High Court, saying he want- the sources said. The injured, dier. I had worked under PM October last year in connection tions of MLAs from Gujarat candidate in the 2009 Assembly To this, the DMK meet If the party’s request was not ed to withdraw his election plea identified as Berona, was taken Modi and BJP president Amit with an irrigation scam and Congress ranks in the past few elections and as a Congress said, “It is noteworthy that the heeded, “We have decided to over which the court had already to the Assam Rifles camp at Shah earlier. 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That being their request,” the NCP chief Prime Minister once again was party and joined the BJP in people of Bengaluru have not- Students’ Federation of contest, setting the stage of the my track record, the question had said. “inevitable”. 2017. forgotten the good work that has AIndia (SFI) leader was entry of his grandson Parth of nursing fear to contest the The Madha Lok Sabha The former External Affairs Krishna had served as the happened in the three con- attacked allegedly by BJP work- Pawar into electoral politics. polls does not arise”. constituency, from where Minister also said he would Karnataka Chief Minister stituencies of Bengaluru during ers at Parassala in the district, Seventy-eight-year-old Without mentioning Pawar may contest, came into campaign for the BJP in between 1999 and 2004. my administration in Bangalore police said on Monday. Pawar, who had earlier been Modi’s name, Pawar said that being on February 19, 2008 as Karnataka in the Lok Sabha He had also served as the north, south and central- so in The SFI leader sustained persuaded by his party leaders there was absolutely no wave in a part of the delimitation exer- polls to ensure that more num- Maharashtra Governor and all the three constituencies, BJP serious injuries in the late to contest from Madha con- MP Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil, the country. “At this juncture, cise carried on the basis of rec- ber of party candidates win even had a stint as External has strong ground and presence. Sunday night attack, they added. stituency, announced that he who will re-contest the Lok there is no wave in the coun- ommendations made by the from the State and Modi Affairs Minister during the So the BJP can face this Two Bharatiya Janata Party had decided not to contest the Sabha polls from Madha con- try. There is a need for change Delimitation Commission of becomes Prime Minister once UPA Government. election with much courage, (BJP) activists were arrested in Lok Sabha polls to pave way for stituency. in Government in the country. India constituted in July 2012. again. The BJP is likely to use excitement and aspiration,” he connection with the incident on the younger generation. Making the most of Pawar’s I have absolutely no fear to con- It comprises Assembly seg- “I believe in the principle Krishna’s charisma to garner said. Monday, the police said. Parth (28) is the son of decision not to the contest the test the polls. There has to be ments of Madha, Karmala, that Narendra Modi becoming more votes in Bengaluru and Asked whether Gowda Four activists of the ruling Pawar’s nephew and Lok Sabha polls, Mahsarashtra a limit on the number of peo- Sangole, Malshrias, all from the Prime Minister of this nearby areas as he is widely contesting would have any Communist Party of India Maharashtra’s former deputy Chief Minister Devendra ple contesting the polls from Solapur district and Phaltan country once again is credited for the growth of the impact, Krishna said individu- (Marxist) in Kerala, including Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. He Fadnavis termed the develop- one family. Like in the two pre- and Maan from Satara district. inevitable,” Krishna said. city as a global IT hub. als would not be that important, the SFI leader, and three BJP is the third generation Pawar to ment as a “big victory” for the vious elections, my daughter In the 2009 Lok Sabha Speaking to reporters here, The party is also likely to but ideology is. workers have been hospitalised make debut in electoral politics. BJP-Shiv Sena alliance. Supriya Sule will contest from elections — held for the first he said “For this reason, I will utilise him for campaigning in “The ideology to which after political violence erupted at Pawar will contest from “Pawar’s decision is indicator of Baramati constituency. time after the formation of this visit as many constituencies as the districts where Vokkaligas BJP is committed to, on the Parassala, the border area of Maval Lok Sabha constituency, the fact that Modi’s popularity Everyone in the party wanted constituency, Pawar won this possible and thereby ensure are dominant- like in old basis of that ideology we will Thiruvananthapuram district. a seat in Pune district that is is increasing in Maharashtra my grandson to contest from seat by trouncing the BJP can- that more number of BJP can- Mysuru region, where the BJP ask for votes. Naturally, who all Abu Thahir, a district com- currently held by the Shiv and across the country. Modi Mawal constituency. That’s why didate Subhash Deshmukh by didates win from Karnataka is weak, as Krishna belongs to have worked for the develop- mittee member of the SFI, was Sena. He will take on the sitting had once said that Pawar quick- I have decided to back out of massive margin of 3.14 lakh and Narendra Modi becomes the community. ment of Bengaluru will be in hacked, leading to head injuries. Sena MP Gajanan Babar in the ly gauges the changing politi- the contest,” the NCP chief said. votes. Pawar, however, chose Prime Minister once again. To a question on how his people’s minds. So based on that The SFI is the students’ wing of polls. cal mood in the country. Since It may be recalled that on not to contest the 2014 Lok With this one vision we are presence would help BJP in principle, we will fight thise- the CPI(M). “Santhosh Kumar Pawar’s announcement he has backed out of the Lok February 8, Pawar had said that Sabha polls. In his place, the all putting our efforts together,” Bengaluru, with reports about lection, not on the basis of per- (36) and Girikumar (38) are the came after he met the party Sabha contest, Pawar must he was considering a request by NCP filed local heavy Vijaysinh he said. former Prime Minister HD sonality. But the only exception two who have been arrested in office bearers from Solapur in have taken stock of the politi- his senior party’s leaders to Mohite-Patil, who managed to Senior State BJP leader R Deve Gowda contesting as the inthis is Narendra Modi should the case. They will be produced western Maharashtra — at cal mood in the country,” contest from Madha Lok Sabha win the seat in the 2014 Lok Ashoka Monday met Krishna JD(S) candidate from Bangalore become Prime Minister once before a court on Monday. which he urged his party work- Fadnavis said. constituency. Sabha polls. to discuss about the prepara- North, Krishna said the saffron again, this is our strong wish,” Further investigation is on,” a ers to support the NCP’s sitting Earlier in the afternoon, “I am not interested in tions for the Lok Sabha polls party has strong ground in the he added. PTI police official told PTI. '     '       .        Mumbai: Security was beefed up at suburban Khar railway     64?/  station on Sunday evening, after an unidentified caller Thiruvananthapuram: The duct,” Meena said. Srinagar: National Conference from North America claimed Election Commission on He added that the (NC) president Farooq that a bomb was planted there, Monday warned political parties Sabarimala issue was a contro- Abdullah on Monday made police said on Monday. in Kerala not to use the versial matter as far as Kerala serious allegations against the However, the call turned Sabarimala temple matter as a was concerned and political BJP-led Centre, saying it out to be a hoax. campaign issue. parties “need to draw a line to ordered the air strike in An unidentified person Kerala Chief Electoral what extent they have to use it”. Pakistan’s Balakot with the “sole called on the landline number Officer Teeka Ram Meena told “Tomorrow, I am holding a purpose” of winning Lok Sabha of Khar police station Sunday the media here that “citing or meeting with political parties in elections. evening, claiming that a bomb invoking” religious propaganda this regard and I will be request- The Srinagar MP alleged was planted at the railway sta- on the “Sabarimala issue” would ing them not to unnecessarily the BJP has “failed” on all tion, which comes under be a clear violation of the model use this religious feeling or reli- fronts and it was apprehended Western Railway, an official code of conduct. gious traditions to solicit votes that there would be a fight or          !   said. PTI “Inviting religious feelings, as this may create some religious skirmish with Pakistan before using any kind of Supreme tensions among people. the polls so that Prime Minister “This atmosphere of fear Court judgement, invoking or If that happens, action will Narendra Modi becomes some that they have created in the soliciting the votes in the name be taken against those respon- kind of an “avatar” without country that without him any- +#4R +0%'4  of religion or by inciting religious sible,” Meena said. whom India cannot survive. thing will happen, I want to tell feelings is a clear violation of the Kerala witnessed wide- “This surgical strike (air him that you were neither a model code of conduct,” he spread violence by devotees and strike) was done only for the God and never will be,” he said. .)   01/- a lot of love. I have nothing said. The CEO also said the right-wing activists after the purpose of election...Totally for Abdullah said there is no against the MNS. It was my commission would not allow state government decided to the election. We lost an aircraft other way than to talk to n a major setback for Raj intense desire to return home " P   *'7 any kind of violation that puts implement the Supreme Court’s worth crores of rupees. Be Pakistan over the Kashmir IThackeray-led MNS, its lone that prompted me to join the a particular political party at an September 28, 2018 verdict thankful that the IAF pilot issue. MLA Sharad Sonavane from Shiv Sena. Junnar is one of the advantage over another. allowing women of all ages into (Wing Commander “They (New Delhi) have Junnar in Pune district of west- Assembly constituencies falling   01/- Sujay wants to switch over “Citing or invoking or doing the Sabarimala temple. Abhinandan Varthaman) sur- brought this (Kashmir) into ern Maharashtra on Monday under the Shirur Lok Sabha to the BJP in the hope that the something of religious propa- The BJP has already pinned vived and returned from international limelight. Several joined the Shiv Sena. constituency, a seat currently r Sujay Vikhe-Patil, the son new party will nominate him to ganda on the Sabarimala issue its hopes on the Sabarimala Pakistan with respect,” countries are now involved in An erstwhile Shiv Sainik, held by the Shiv Sena’s Dof senior Congressman and contest the polls from Lok by invoking the name of Sabari issue as it believes that it was able Abdullah told reporters here. making India and Pakistan to Sonvane joined the Sena in the Shivajirao Adhalarao Patil. Leader of Maharashtra Sabha constituency. God, etc., will be a clear viola- to create a momentum among In a predawn exercise on talk over Kashmir and they will presence of party president There had been consider- Legislative Assembly There is uncertainty on tion of the model code of con- its workers. PTI February 26, the Indian Air have to engage themselves as it Uddhav Thackeray. able resistance from the Shiv Radhakrishna-Vikhe Patil, is whether the BJP will field him Force pounded Jaish-e- is the only way forward,” he Sonavane’s entry to the Shiv Sena workers in Junnar taluka set to join the BJP. as its candidate from Mohammed’s biggest training said. Sena comes one and a half years of Pune district. The local Sena Sujay’s decision to quit the Ahmednagar. No wonder that camp in Balakot. The air strike Asked about the Election after six MNS corporators office bearers had threatened to Congress stems from inability to on Monday, the supporters of came in response to a terrorist Commission of India’s decision joined the ruling Sena in the quit the party in the event of contest the Lok Sabha polls the sitting BJP MP from Dilip attack in Pulwama on February to delay the assembly polls in Brihanmumbai Municipal the party taking Sonavane into Ahmednagar Lok Sabha seat, Gandhi staged a demonstration 14, in which 40 CRPF jawans the state, Abdullah said he Corporation (BMC). its fold. However, the Sena which falls in the NCP quota. in front of the Maharashtra BJP were killed. feared some “mischief” by the Talking to media persons , leadership has persuaded the In the past, Shrad Pawar headquarters in south Mumbai, Abdullah said Monday, “In Centre in J&K. Sonavane said: “It’s homecom- aggrieved party workers not to had offered the seat to Sujay on demanding Gandhi’s re-nomi- the Parliament, we knew they “I think they must have ing for me. Raj Thackeray and make an issue of Sonavane’s the condition that he should nation as the party candidate to have failed on all other things thought of doing some mis- his wife Sharmila have given me entry to the party. contest the seat on NCP ticket. contest the Lok Sabha polls. and that there would be a fight chief, that’s why they delayed or a skirmish with Pakistan in the polls. I do not understand Kashmir so that he (Prime that when thousands of people Minister Narendra Modi) took part in the Panchayat and becomes some kind of an municipal polls, what danger ‘avatar’ without whom India they think there is now when cannot survive. But I want to forces are present in larger tell him that whether he or I live number than they were. And or not, India will live and move they are present in every nook forward,” . and corner of the state,” he said. The NC president said an The NC president said all atmosphere of fear was being parties are in favour of holding created to help the BJP in the simultaneous Lok Sabha and polls. Assembly polls and now the “They want to create an public should understand what atmosphere of fear. There their motive is. would be no war. The whole “If we unite, their designs world is watching. This gov- will fail. We should prepare for ernment is only using the senior that..For not giving a chance to officer for winning the election, the Centre for destruction. So, the officer whom they got by we all should stand to confront superseding many others and them...Where is the mighty who is now dancing to their government of India which tunes. Otherwise, there is no cannot conduct an election danger,” he said, without nam- here? If this is not surrender, ing the “officer”. what is,” he said. 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IBM Chairman, President and cater to around 3 lakh female workshops were held across Monday. for April 8, but Management Company Ltd The collaboration aims CEO Ginni Rometty said at a students. five locations, namely “(Ghosn) has a duty to Ghosn retains (IHMCL) has inked a pact at making FASTags available company event. IBM also announced a Sangrur, Dhuri, Bhawanigarh attend the board meeting as a the right to with CSC e-Governance to citizens through an exten- She said the program is not two-year Advanced Diploma Mandi, Sunam Mandi and member of the board, so if he attend board Services for issuance of sive network of over 1 lakh about conducting technical Programme in emerging tech- Chintawala regions of Punjab, is allowed, he wants to attend,” meetings until FASTags through common ser- CSC outlets across the coun- training session, but to focus on nologies created in collabora- and attended by people from Junichiro Hironaka said in then. vice centres, according to an try. basics of critical thinking, life tion with the Ministry of Skill 25 villages. comments carried on Japan’s But he NHAI official. The FASTag programme is skills, among others. Development and The aim of the joint project NTV televsion station. must also Promoted by the National an initiative by the NHAI and “All of us are capable of Entrepreneurship which will be was to impart digital financial Nissan is scheduled to hold obtain the Highways Authority of India the Ministry of Road Transport teaching our employees sort of available to 100 Industrial literacy to approx. 500 women a board meeting Tuesday after- court’s approval, which may monitored from the outside by (NHAI), IHMCL has been and Highways (MoRTH) to hardskills. It is softskill, in Training Institutes (ITI), clients in Punjab. noon at the company’s head- prove challenging given the camera, and can only access a mandated to implement the enable road users to pay the toll technology world that we have including 50 all-women ITIs, At the five-day Digital quarters in the city of stringent measures that govern non-internet connected com- National Electronic Toll electronically without stopping to learn. Collectively our pro- over the next three years. Financing Literacy Training Yokohama. his release on bail. puter at his lawyer’s office. Collection (NETC) pro- by at toll plazas and thus reduc- grams are doing one million in The company will also hosted in mid-February, The firm said it could not Under the terms of his The 65-year-old was gramme under the brand name ing congestion. numbers and helping four mil- offer internships of up to five Satya developed an confirm that Ghosn was seek- release, he is forbidden from released on bail on March 6 ’FASTag’. The programme was lion teachers,” Rometty said. months to some students under advanced structure of con- ing to attend the meeting but contacting people who could after more than 100 days in “In a major fillip to ensure launched in April 2016. The company will collabo- the program. tent and innovative that it would be “for the court be involved in his case, includ- detention. easy availability of FASTags, Currently, it is operational rate with seven State Under the skills and edu- methodology of communi- to decide” whether its former ing Nissan executives likely to He faces three charges of IHMCL, a company promoted at over 480 toll plazas along Governments across India to cational program, IBM will cation as part of its educa- chief could be present. attend board meetings, such as financial misconduct over alle- by NHAI, has signed a mem- the national highways and prepare over 200,000 girls and offer science training resources tional strategy to teach its Nissan removed Ghosn as CEO Hiroto Saikawa. gations he under-reported his orandum of understanding select state toll plazas. Till women in Government schools to four million teachers in the clients about digital financ- chief shortly after his shock Ghosn, who paid nearly $9 compensation and sought to (MoU) with CSC e- date, more than 4.3 million over the next three years for Indian Open Educational ing in an easy-to-under- November 19 arrest, but he million in bail money, must transfer personal losses to Governance Services India Ltd, FASTags have been issued, “new collar” jobs through the Resources community for stand manner. cannot be officially removed also live in a residence that is Nissan’s books. a special purpose vehicle, set up the official said. exploration and study of STEM STEM. #$  1 !  >      '  4"" F-      *+&*,-

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The plane plowed into Narendra Modi that her gov- planes, citing flight safety, a day CAAC statement as saying. be travelling to the crash site to safety precaution” following larger pieces of the plane. the ground at Hejere near ernment would never allow the after an aircraft of similar The grounding of the air- provide technical assistance to the crash of one of its planes in The plane’s “black box” of Bishoftu. country’s soil to be used by any model operated by Ethiopian craft is likely to affect more Ethiopian and US investigators. which 157 people were killed, flight data and cockpit voice “I heard this big noise,” one terrorist organisation under Airlines crashed in Addis than a dozen Chinese carriers, “Boeing is deeply saddened a spokesman said Monday, as recorder had been found, local resident, Tsegaye Reta, its “zero tolerance policy”. Ababa killing all 157 passengers which have taken delivery of to learn of the passing of the Ethiopia marked a day of Ethiopian Airlines said. An told the AP on Monday. Dhaka was firmly com- and crew, including four close to 100 of the latest single- passengers and crew on mourning and the plane’s dam- airline official, however, told “The villagers said that it mitted to stamp out terrorism Pakistan-based Jaish-e- Indians. aisle plane from the US aircraft Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, aged “black box” of data was The Associated Press that the was a plane crash, and we from the South Asian region Muhammed killed 40 CRPF The crash of Ethiopian maker, it said. a 737 MAX 8 airplane. We found. Although it wasn’t yet box was partially damaged and rushed to the site. There was a through bilateral, regional and personnel in Kashmir’s Airlines plane came five CNN, quoting state-run extend our heartfelt sympathies known what caused the crash “we will see what we can huge smoke that we couldn’t multilateral cooperation, she Pulwama district on February months after another Boeing media, said Chinese carriers to the families and loved ones of the new plane in clear weath- retrieve from it.” The official even see the plane. The parts of said after jointly inaugurating 14, the incident led to flaring 737 MAX 8 of Lion Air crashed have 97 Boeing 737 MAX 8 of the passengers and crew on er outside Addis Ababa on spoke on condition of the plane were falling apart.” four projects in Bangladesh up of tensions between India in Indonesia that killed 189 planes. As many as 246 Chinese board and stand ready to sup- Sunday, the airline decided to anonymity for lack of autho- Kenya lost 32 people, more with Prime Minister Modi and Pakistan. passengers and crew. domestic routes and 355 port the Ethiopian Airlines ground its remaining four 737 rization to speak to the media. than any country. Relatives of through video-conferencing. Hasina said that the rela- Apart from China, domestic flights were sched- team. Max 8s until further notice, Forensic experts from 25 of the victims had been con- Terming the spread of rad- tions between Dhaka and New Indonesia and Ethiopia have uled on Monday for the 737 “A Boeing technical team spokesman Asrat Begashaw Israel had arrived to help with tacted, Macharia said, and tak- icalism as a “grave threat” not Delhi is now a “role model” of also ordered airlines to ground MAX 8 planes, excluding inter- will be travelling to the crash said. Ethiopian Airlines had the investigation, said ing care of their welfare was of only to the two countries but to good neighbours for the rest of their Boeing 737 MAX 8 national services, the report site to provide technical assis- been using five of the planes Ethiopian Airlines’ spokesman utmost importance. the entire region, India and the world as a result of multi- planes. There were similarities said quoting Chinese flight tance under the direction of the and awaiting delivery of 25 Asrat. Ethiopian authorities “Some of them, as you Bangladesh last year resolved to faceted and multi-dimension- between the two mishaps, since data provider VariFlight. Ethiopia Accident Investigation more. lead the investigation into the know, they are very distressed,” step up anti-terror cooperation. al cooperation. they both occurred during As many as 29 flights have Bureau and US National Some other airlines around crash, assisted by the U.S., he said. “They are in shock like “We remain steadfast in “I strongly believe this take-off, involving new air- already been cancelled, while Transportation Safety Board,” the world were deciding to do Kenya and others. we are. They are grieving.” our resolve to root out the momentum will continue,” she craft that had just been deliv- 259 fights were replaced by the statement from the com- the same. Aviation authorities “These kinds of things take Canada, Ethiopia, the U.S., scourge of terrorism from our said. ered, the Hong Kong-based other aircraft. pany said. in China and Indonesia along time,” Kenya’s transport min- China, Italy, France, Britain, region and beyond through The Bangladesh premier South China Morning Post China Southern Airlines, The 737 is the best-selling with Caribbean carrier ister, James Macharia, told Egypt, Germany, India and bilateral, regional and multi- said over the last decade, two reported quoting a statement Air China, China Eastern airliner in history. Its newest Cayman Airways temporarily reporters. People from 35 Slovakia all lost four or more lateral cooperation,” Hasina countries have witnessed by the Civil Aviation Authority Airlines, Hainan Airlines are version 737 MAX 8 has more grounded their Max 8s. countries died in the Sunday citizens. Leaders of the United said. remarkable progress on coop- of China (CAAC). among the carriers that fly the fuel-efficient engines. The air- Red Cross workers slowly morning crash six minutes Nations, the UN Refugee The Bangladesh premier eration in different conven- “In accordance with the aircraft, which can carry craft is a central part of picked through the widely scat- after the plane took off from agency and the World Food said her government would tional and unconventional CAAC’s management principle between 138 to 230 passengers Boeing’s strategy to compete tered debris near the blackened Ethiopia’s capital en route to Program announced that col- never allow Bangladesh soil to areas like security, power, trade of zero tolerance for safety depending on their configura- with its European rival Airbus. crash crater, looking for the Nairobi. leagues had been on the plane. be used by any terrorist organ- and commerce, energy, con- isation under its “zero tolerance nectivity, infrastructure devel- policy” against terrorism “in all opment, environment, renew- !!!"7! # its forms and manifestations”. able energy, education, cul-   "  # 
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Kristine, a practitioner for four decades, has translated Her series of paintings have the verbal poetics of Neruda into a visual vocabulary. lines begins to permutate that word into ‘salt his poem and this is why I called the series been seen as a reminder of free- shaker’ and ‘salt flats.’ Scholars state that Salt Song,” she says. dom and intimacy that is primar- place in the society, without observed from a distance, con- VISUAL VOCABULARY Neruda names this unusual landscape — the ily reserved for oneself, in private anyone’s guidance. Hence, trary to the immediate encounter Neruda’s ode is taken as a form by Kristine and with- region of Antofagasta in his native Chile, which ASSOCIATIONS AND ALLUSIONS chambers. The domesticity that unconsciously it were the predicated in these works. It’s in the six stoneware plates, we can espie an inspirational is part of the Atacama Desert, often called the Neruda’s lines speak of multiple associa- one views in her paintings is not thoughts of single women I was through her vivid colours that anchor and an aesthetic starting point for her work. These driest place on earth. Interestingly, the great tions and allusions. The plates by Kristine epit- the domesticity that is tradition- featuring at that time.” Delteil showcases how the monochromatic plates with subtle strokes including a sea thinker and researcher of evolution, Charles omise this in a remarkably minimalist yet ally ascribed to women as their Inspired and “impressed” by women roam around in their shell, unravels many references, specifically of the Darwin, during the voyage of the Beagle, wrote striking manner, with the painterly, abstract responsibility, but one that artists like Berthe Morisot, rooms with free imagination Greek poets, notably Pindar, who began writing odes as of the desert, “It was almost a pity to see the splashes of black contrasting pleasingly against Virginia Woolf would have Edward Vuillard or Pierre and the only space they own a celebration to chariot races, but the ode eventually came sun shining over so useless a country.” the ground of white transfer decal glaze. The approved of — women in rooms Bonnard, she feels that at the end without boundaries. into much wider use. Kristine’s plates also make us think of the striking patterns highlight the plates’ undulat- of their own. of the 1960s, when she was For Delteil, in the airy, light- Neruda didn’t write his odes in praise of a rich per- Atacama Desert. It is a place of hallucinato- ing profile, exemplifying the swelling forms Empowered by travel and working in Japan, she began to filled spaces, women lounge in all son’s chariot, though. He wrote what he called the ry strangeness, where rain sometimes does- and dynamic contours and the intonations of time spent in Spain and Greece, find herself in the paintings. “I their nudity, immersed in con- Elemental Odes — odes in praise of ordinary things used n’t fall for decades at a time, and when it salt that were created as a work of praise by Delteil transcended her circum- searched for vibrant colours to templation. They are contempla- and enjoyed by ordinary people. For instance, Ode to the does, the air is so dry that the water some- Neruda. Scholars have said that often a work stances to grow as an artist, and depict the intimate interiors and tive dreamers, desiring for some- Watermelon, Ode to My Socks. One look at the plates, times evaporates before it could even touch of praise is created out of a deep sense of marry the man of her choice, present women in gentle thing that is denied to them by and the lines from these poems come rushing through the ground. Some of the lakes in this area are responsibility. Indian artist Sakti Burman, to boudoirs, in a contemplative their prescribed realities. one’s recollections. pink or silver-gray from the minerals in In Neruda’s poem, he makes the salt flats her family’s displeasure. appearance, more than in a banal Empowering the feminine ‘And in its crevices/ rock salt, mountains/ of buried them, even when gathered in a clear bottle. take on an other worldly beauty — mountains/ When a friend asked the sentimental vision,” said she. impulse, she paints a world light/ a transparent cathedral/ sea crystals, forgotten/ by In parts of the Atacama Desert, the salt forms of buried light — a transparent cathedral. artist that why there are only Delteil’s use of yellow, the where women are empowered by the waves.’ strange sculptures. Kristine uses abstraction These images of fantasy transform this desolate, women in her paintings of the brightest colour that the eye can the right to define themselves, Kristine, in reality, presents us with the gaze of the and the dynamics of alphabets as she impoverished area into a place of splendour. 60s and why generally is there a register, and also the colour of the and can indulge in their own poet through her Salt Song, a modernist mooring of includes text on the plates. Neruda makes this forsaken region the most single woman in each of it? sun, opens up the rooms in her thoughts and “dare to dream.” instincts and intuitive reckoning. In many ways, Kristine “The text is typed on my mother’s old holy place because of the dignity of the human She replied, “In the 60s, the works from being “stuffy and The exhibition will also compels us to think how Neruda goes way beyond praise Olivetti typewriter to give a vintage atmos- sweat that goes into it, suggesting medieval social life in France was a bit con- claustrophobic.” She lends them release and premiere a film on because the poem for him was not just a description of phere,” states Kristine. “The images are black cathedrals that were an accumulation of decades servative. My father had reject- an outdoor-like quality, as if in the artist by Joy Banerjee, titled salt, but an act of imagination created as an ode. and white photographs of my early spiral and even centuries of work. His words bring us ed me from the family when I broad daylight, reminiscent of Maîte Enchanted. series on shells converted into decal trans- back to the reality of the everyday idiom. married my Indian friend. It was her later works, where the sub- (The show is on from March SALT SIGNATURES fers... the patterns are all black and white in ‘And you’re on every table/ on this earth/ my unconscious thought that ject matter is indeed placed 15 to April 15 at Art Alive In poetic terms, Neruda starts with the basic build- sync with the look and feel of salt. I wanted salt/ your eager/ sustenance/ scattering/ vital women have to solely find their under the open sky, to be Gallery.) ing block of salt in line one, and then in the next two it to resonate with Neruda’s essence of life in light/ over/ our food.’ "71   1      !   -        ) &     K     ! /    !  !    # EC  ) 
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&  4  > their All England disappointment when they spearhead India's campaign at the Swiss Open, starting with the qualifiers on Tuesday.  -&-/+* crushing loss to Djokovic in the  -&-/+* For Sameer, this event started his journey that Australian Open final and included culminated into a World Tour Final semifinal fin- orld number two Rafael Nadal an early exit in Acapulco, converted erena Williams's first tour- ish last year and a career-high ranking of 11. He Wraced into the third round of five of his six break chances against Snament since the had defeated newly-crowned All England the ATP Indian Wells Masters as Donaldson and never faced a break Australian Open came to an Champion Kento Momota in the quarterfinals, a Roger Federer made a less speedy but point himself. abrupt end on Sunday as the few months before the Japanese went on to become still successful start to his quest for a He next faces Diego ailing 23-time Grand Slam the world No 1 and world champion last year. sixth title on Sunday. Schwartzman, who beat Spain's champion retired from her World No 14 Sameer will be opening his cam- Nadal, a three-time Indian Wells Roberto Carballes, 6-3, 6-1. Nadal is third-round WTA match paign in $150,000 event against a qualifier after winner, needed just 72 minutes to get 6-0 against the Argentine. against Garbine Muguruza at his elder brother Sourabh, who had also battled past overmatched Jared Donaldson, In other early matches, sixth- Indian Wells. injuries on his way to becoming the Senior 6-1, 6-1. seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan sur- Muguruza was leading 6-3, 1-0 when National Champion last month at Guwahati, Federer, who is seeking to break vived a scare in a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7/4) Williams called it a day in the battle of former pulled out of the tournament. out of a tie with top seed Novak victory over France's Adrian world number ones because of a viral illness. Sameer might face fellow Indian B Sai Djokovic for most titles in the Mannarino. "Before the match, I did not feel great, Praneeth in the second round and a favourable California desert, looked set for a sim- Nishikori next faces and then it just got worse with every sec- result is likely to hand him over the chance to set- ilarly easy time of it, but had to turn 67th-ranked Hubert ond; extreme dizziness and extreme tle scores with former world No 1 Viktor Axelsen, back a second-set challenge from Hurkacz of Poland, who fatigue," Williams said in comments who had defeated him in the first round of All German Peter Gojowczyk in a 6-1, 7- defeated France's Lucas released via tournament organizers. England Championships in Birmingham last week. 5 win. Pouille, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4. The 10th-seeded American, contin- The BWF World Tour Super 300 event will Fourth-seeded Federer said he Eighth-seeded uing to work her way back up the rank- Slams. be Saina's fourth outing this season, having won was relieved not to go to a second-set American John Isner routed ings in the wake of time off to have a baby, had The Spaniard, who advanced to a fourth- the Indonesia Masters before losing in the semi- tiebreaker after falling behind 3-1 to Australian qualifier Alexei Popyrin, 6- made a strong start, winning the first three round clash with seventh-seeded Kiki Bertens finals and quarterfinals at Malaysia Masters and the free-swinging German, who is 0, 6-2, the most lopsided win of Isner's games. of the Netherlands, a 7-6 (12/10), 6-4 winner over All England Championship respectively. ranked 85th in the world. Federer next faces compatriot career. But she called for the trainer after dropping Britain's Johanna Konta. She begins her campaign against a qualifier, The Swiss regained the break and, Stan Wawrinka, a three-time Grand He'll play Guido Pella, who won six straight. World number two Simona Halep had her eying to secure her third title at Swiss. She had won after saving four break points to make Slam champion currently unseeded as his first title at Sao Paulo last week. After a long talk with medical personnel hands full with Ukrainian qualifier Kateryna the event in 2011 and 2012 in the past. it 4-4, cruised home. he continues his return from injury. Pella ended the hopes of another Williams took the court for the second set, but Kozlova but emerged with a 7-6 (7/3), 7-5 vic- Seeded third, Saina is expected to face second "I struggled a little bit with my Wawrinka won a taut thriller Aussie qualifier, Alex Bolt, 7-6 (7/5), after Muguruza held serve at love Williams called tory in her first meeting with the 114th-ranked seeded He Bingjiao of China in the semifinals if serving in that second set and that against 29th-seeded Hungarian 2-6, 6-3. a halt. player. the results fall in her favour. gave him chances. Because he was Marton Fucsovics, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 7- Tenth-seeded Croatian Marin "By the score, it might have looked like I Halep next faces 61st-ranked Czech Marketa Among other Indians in fray, Parupalli serving better, he started to swing 5, finally sealing it on his fifth match Cilic downed Serbian Dusan Lajovic, started well, but I was not feeling at all well phys- Vondrousova, who followed up her win over Kashyap, a former Commonwealth Games cham- more freely and then it was tough," point after three hours and 24 min- 6-3, 6-4 to book a meeting with 19- ically," Williams said. "I will focus on getting bet- 2018 finalist Daria Kasatkina with a 4-6, 6-3, 6- pion, will face a qualifier, Praneeth will meet Federer said. utes when Fucsovics lofted a lob long. year-old Canadian Denis Shapovalov, ter and start preparing for Miami." 4 win over 22nd seed Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia. England's Rajiv Ouseph and Subhankar Dey will "I'm really happy I found a way Nadal, playing his third tourna- the 24th seed who beat American It was the sixth meeting between Muguruza Sixth-seeded Elina Svitolina also advanced, also take on a qualifier in first round. in that second set." ment of a year that started with a Steve Johnson, 6-3, 6-4. and Williams, all five prior coming in Grand holding of Australian Daria Gavrilova 7-5, 6-4.